Santa Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many the world’s most beautiful race track. The track is home to numerous prestigious races including both the Santa Anita Derby and the Santa Anita Handicap as well as hosting the Breeders’ Cup in 1986, 1993, 2003, 2008,…

Clifton’s Cafeteria (1935) While L.A. awaits the rebirth of Clifton’s Cafeteria, the casual eatery is an irrefutable part of the city’s culinary history. Of the once-extensive chain of cafeterias, Clifton’s Brookdale remains the only operational location, opened in 1935, and soon to be reinvented as a 24-hour food and drink destination in the revitalized Broadway area. We’ve got the whole Clifton’s story here for you to chew on in the meantime.

Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton in London. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2007, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.[1][2] Currently, there are 191 Hard Rock locations in 59 countries including 145 cafes, 21 hotels and 10…

Hollywood (/ˈhɒliwʊd/ hol-ee-wuud) is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable for its place as the home of the film industry, including several of its historic studios. Its name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States. Hollywood is also a highly ethnically diverse, densely populated, economically diverse neighborhood and retail business district. Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in…

Sunset Gower Studios is a 14-acre (57,000 m2) television and movie studio at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Established in 1912, it continues today as Hollywood’s largest independent studio and an active facility for television and film production on its twelve soundstages. History The studios were originally founded by Columbia Pictures Studios movie mogul Harry Cohn in 1918[1] in the Poverty Row area of Hollywood. Poverty Row was the area bounded by…

opened in 1912 as Vitagraph Studios, making it one of the oldest studios in Hollywood. eventually purchased by Warner Bros in 1925 ABC Television acquired the studio property in 1949, and opened the world’s largest, state-of-the-art television center. “The old Vitagraph lot, then ABC, now Disney in East Hollywood, once had a large backlot, but by the time of television, the backlot was gone. For an early live western tv show, the side of one of the sound stages was…

Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Studios or simply Paramount, and formerly known as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the “Big Six” film studios of Hollywood. It is a subsidiary of U.S. media conglomerate Viacom. Paramount is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital-form…

The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion Center opened to the public on December 16, 1997[2] and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The Center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors’ parking garage at the bottom of the hill by a three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain funicular. Located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Center…